4. Give Charitable Favors

Instead of giving the traditional favors to your guests, why not give an item supporting a person in need? You could also forego favors altogether and make a donation to your favorite charity in honor of all of your friends and family.

5. Gather a Generous Wedding Party

Band together with your wedding party, family, and friends to make an even greater impact by volunteering as an alternative to the traditional wedding shower, bachelor party, or rehearsal dinner.

6. Be Honeymoon Helpers

Spend your first week as newlyweds giving back—volunteer to build a school, help at an orphanage, or teach English. These are just a few ways your wedding to have a big impact on the world around you.

Beautiful Era Photography & Design gives back 10% of every photography session that we do. If you would like to help us give back to the world with your wedding photography, contact us today!

My husband and I are trying to make a priority of going out on adventures together, both for the sake of exploring the world around us and also to expand our skills. As someone is constantly working behind a computer, it's so important for me to get out and see the beauty of the earth, be inspired, be refreshed! I hope you enjoy these images from our latest adventure to Taylor's Falls on Labor Day this year!

This is the first time we took our dog, #oakleyrembrandt, out on a climbing adventure, he absolutely LOVED it... in fact he was a little too confident climbing on some of those rocks for my taste!

I love getting the chance to push my creative boundaries, so this spring, Christianna and I did our first inspiration session! These shoots are such a wonderful opportunity for us to work with new people and other vendors! A huge thank you to Ashlea and Brian for being such willing models!

We had such an awesome team of vendors working on this project as well! Check out their websites!